Champion sprinter Shamus Award has won the Herald Sun Champion Three-Year-Old Colt or Gelding of the Year award.
Shamus Award was trained by Danny O’ Brien and had great success this year. The son of Snitzel won the Sportingbet Cox Plate (2040m), and became the first horse to also win the Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) in the same season. Read more at Racing.com http://www.racing.com/news/2014-10-02/shamus-award-wins-3yo
Watch Shamus Award win the Cox Plate:
A great week for Sean Buckley and the team at Ultra Thoroughbreds as they purchase exciting stallion Hooked for $600,000 at the Magic Millions sale on the Gold Coast. Sean Buckley commented: “the horse was purchased by Ultra Thoroughbred Racing and will race in our colours in the Epsom Handicap on Saturday.” He will continue to be trained by John Thompson.
Hooked is a 4yo bay stallion and is sired by the stallion Casino Prince out of the dam Absolute Lure. On 17th Sep 2014 at Newcastle, Hooked was ridden by Blake Shinn and scored his most significant win to date, getting the money in the $151,100 Strathayr Cameron Handicap, defeating Rugged Cross (GB).
Read more about the news here : http://www.breedingracing.com/news/2014/10/02/mm-patinack-dispersal-day-4-hooked-fetches-600k/
Sean Buckley is passionate about sports; in particular thoroughbred horse racing. He is the owner of Ultra Thoroughbreds, who run a beautiful stud farm in North East of Victoria known as ‘Barree Stud’.
Here’s a look back at the fantastic Miss Andretti in 2007!
Sean Buckley’s Miss Andretti!
Miss Andretti : Sean Buckley’s 2007 champion takes gold!
Culminate is originally from New Zealand, owned by Sean Buckley and trained by Darren Weir is an 11 year old bay or brown mare (female).
In 2010 she raced into group 1 calculations with a determined victory in the Tristrarc Stakes at Caulfield. Culminate hugged the rails and cut the corner in the Tristarc while her rivals plotted a wider path but none were able to peg her back in the run to the line.
Jockey Michael Walker rounded off a winning double and thanked Buckley for his loyalty and belief in his ability.
”It’s been a long time coming, this win. Since I’ve come to Melbourne I’ve been riding for Sean and even though we had a few hiccups with this one having her injury, so this will pick us up,” Walker said.
”I knew that she wouldn’t have the speed to lead but she tricked me a bit today because she was a lot more forward than she was at Flemington.
”She pulled quite hard which took a bit of sprint out of her and she was on the worst ground but I just knew that she was a group 1 performer.”
One of New Zealand’s most consistent mares in recent years, Culminate also recorded a Group 1 placing at her first Australian campaign when runner up behind Typhoon Tracy in the 2009 Coolmore Classic (1500m) at Rosehill.
Read more about Culminate’s success at Horse Racing Only
Perfect Promise racked up another series of firsts in taking the C.F. Orr Stakes (Aust-I) at Caulfield Feb. 11 2006.
Most significantly, the 6-year-old mare’s consummate victory in the $300,000 (Australian funds) feature saw her become the first South African-bred horse to win a group I in Australia or New Zealand.
The 1 1/2 length winner provided the first group I success for jockey Craig Newitt, and was having her first start for her owner Sean Buckley and trainer Lee Freedman.
Sean Buckley paid $725,000 for the daughter of Nureyev horse Caesour at auction in Sydney two months earlier to disperse the horses raced by the Written Bloodstock Syndicate of Mark Peters and Larry King.
It was one of a string of distaffer purchases made in 2006 by Buckley, CEO of the car care franchise company UltraTune. Grahame Begg prepared Perfect Promise for the previous owners. She became the first of her nationality to win an Australian group race in taking the Emancipation Stakes (Aust-II) in April, 2000 from the Freedman barn’s Uprize.